3 Days in Kuching

I had been in Kuching from 17/2/2016-19/2/2016 with family. 

It considered as my first time in nearly 30 years did touristy things in Kuching. 

This marked the beginning of our 5 hour road journey to Kuching

 Mama Tay insisted to drop by her elder sister. While Mama chatted with aunty, we just kept on eating her Chinese New Year cookies and cakes. Such a good rest and recreation destination!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, monkeys and elephants, above was the new photos posing created by my sisters, Naruto and Mickey. 

Below showed what I visit for Kuching trip:

1) Ching San Yen/Green Hill Temple

Our first destination was Ching San Yen/Green Hill Temple. I'd heard so much about Ching San Yen/Green Hill Temple from Mama Tay. 

Based on Mama Tay, Ching San Yen located on the hill and faced the river. It always flooded with Buddhist devotees/worshippers, tourists and son on.  

Nevertheless, she never been there since no transportation. During earlier times, it only accessed through boats. Moreover, they needed to walk muddy path to reach Malay fishing village. Ching San Yen/Green Hill Temple was within Malay fishing village. It created inconvenience.  Luckily, Ching San Yen/Green Hill Temple could be reached using road currently. It was half an hour driving distance from Kuching city center.

 Finally we stepped there this year. Mama sure proud of Naruto (driver) bringing her over there. 

The temple had been existed for 200 years. 

More staircases to come

It's incredible serene and peaceful as it faced the river. 

Mama took a deep breath before climbing up to the hill. The temple was located on the hill

magnificent wall painting really caught my eyes

It provided free vegetarian foods and drinks for visitors. I even saw some visitors packed the vegetarian noodles and blessed water back home.

One things that that impressed me was Chinese Buddhist devotees/worshippers and Malay folks’ racial harmony and religious respect. For example, the Malay folks welcomed the presence of Buddhist devotees/worshippers through showing the ways and greeted Buddhist devotees when they needed to drive through Malays’ fishing village to reach Chin San Yen/Green Hill Temple.

Other good example was the Malays’ Village Advancement and Security Committee (Jawatankuasa Kemajuan dan Keselamatan) to take care Buddhist devotees/worshippers’ cars. However, the committee collected RM 4 from us at the entrance of the fishing village. They were not only protected our car but also guided us to the parking space. 

It’s the good ideas. Chin San Yen/Green Hill Temple management committee offered the jobs for the Malay folks. In return, the Malay folks accepted the offer and got the pay. Consequently, it cultivated the harmonious relationship between Malay folks, Chin San Yen/Green Hill Temple management committee, Chinese Buddhist devotees/worshippers and so on. 

It reminded me a quote:

"They forgot who they were, they were the same"

Ching San Yen/Green Hill Temple

Address: Kampung Muara Tebas, Jalan Bako, 93250, Kuching, Sarawak.

2) Siniawan 

Our second destination was Siniawan. It was spontaneous trip as we searched how to go there through GPS (i.e global positioning system) 1 hour ago. 

It's a heritage town with 2 rows of wooded shop houses. It's highlight was the night market ( Friday-Sunday 5pm-11pm). I heard Siniawan Night Market had grilled chicken wings, satay, Hakka kuih, chicken chop and so on. Since we reached there on day time, we missed the Siniawan Night Market. 

Besides that, 2 rows of wooded shop houses constituted the beautiful backdrop for photograph lovers like us. We busy taking photo like there's no tomorrow since we loved the old architectures. 

Mama perceived it's boring and mundane when seeing those kind of old buildings. Nothing fresh for her as she had been stayed in this kind of old shop houses. Thus, Mama Tay urged us to be quick in order to go to Siniawan Temple.

Mickey, Papa and the homestay 

redness everywhere 

Naruto can't stop herself in seeing wooden shop houses

Just dog, me and 2 rows of wooded shop houses 

What a lovely sight!!!

Papa owned the professional acting when taking this photo 

After that, we off to Siniawan Temple namely, Shui Yue Gong （水月宫）

Mama seemed traveled back to old times when visiting Shui Yue Gong. She always prayed in Shui Yue Gong with my grandfather in her younger age. According to Mama, Shui Yue Gong had undergone major renovation. It became bigger compared earlier times. 

3) Blue Lake, Bau

Next, we proceeded to Blue Lake in Bau. We passed by Bau when back to Kuching city. 

It's an artificial lake. It used to be a gold mine but later the gold run out, it formed the lake from the rain water or underground spring. 

Mama warned us not to walk near the blue lake to prevent any accident. See, three of them stood still enjoying the view

The closer look of blue lake. 

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Last but not least, I thank Naruto for being 3 days Kuching trip's driver. 

With her powerful driving skills, we able conquered Kuching. 

We able to see Ching San Yen/Green Hill Temple, Siniawan, Bau, Serian and so on. 

Papa and Mama able to visit their relatives. Both of them were glad that they knew the direction to search their relatives. No more relied on anyone for showing the direction. I used to remember Mama always worried when Papa drove in big city like Kuching. Big city had more cars. I discovered that she no longer worried about Naruto. She had high confidence with Naruto.

Mickey and mine able did shopping in the various Kuching shopping mall. 

Thank you, Naruto